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  • If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way; and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow.

    Strong   Struggle   Pride  
    Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.122, SUNY Press
  • Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

    Past   Daylight   Rubbish  
    George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.186
  • All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

    World   Helping   Comic  
    "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 54), 2006.
  • We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.

    Christmas   Fun   Perfect  
    Pam Brown (1992). “Merry Christmas”, Exley Giftbooks
  • Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums.

    Christmas   Heart   Bags  
  • Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.

    Funny   Humor   Mirrors  
  • Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

    Christmas   Dream   Lying  
  • I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.

  • I've sold shoes, hawked newspapers, jerked sodas, gazed rapturously at the tinsel dream at the end of a runway from my usher's aisle in a burley-cue, drove a truck - then because I didn't like being pushed around, started pushing a pencil around.

    Dream   Shoes   Pushing  
  • Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

    Ronald Reagan, Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Graebner Anderson, Martin Anderson (2001). “Reagan, in His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America”, p.511, Simon and Schuster
  • Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

    Titles   Wealth   Libel  
    1812 Declaration of Rights, article 27.
  • Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

    Moon   Journey   Light  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.39, Harvard University Press
  • Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.

    Robert Musil, Eithne Wilkins, Ernst Kaiser (1986). “Five Women”, p.124, David R. Godine Publisher
  • In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.

    Growth   Gold   Sound  
    "The Growth of the Law". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1924.
  • And the sun had on a crown Wrought of gilded thistledown, And a scarf of velvet vapor And a raveled rainbow gown; And his tinsel-tangled hair Tossed and lost upon the air Was glossier and flossier Than any anywhere.

    Hair   Rainbow   Tangled  
    James Whitcomb Riley (2010). “Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures”, p.106, Indiana University Press
  • Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

  • I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.

    James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited
  • Silent night, holy night, when the bough flies from the tree and is hung everywhere, when from tables the crusts fly, when the gifts begin to tremble because lovelessness walks through the world, because it snarls at you, barks at you from the snow, and the silver ribbons rip and the tinsel rustles silvery, and the silver and gold, and a golden word come to you on which you choke because you have been sold and betrayed, and because it does not suffice that for you one is redeemed who once died.

    Rip   Night   Snow  
  • An Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman were invited to a Christmas party. The Englishman brought a bag of tinsel, the Scotsman brought a bag of holly and they asked the Irishman: "What have you brought?" He said: "I brought a pair of knickers." They asked: "What has that got to do with Christmas?" He said "They're Carol's."

    Funny   Party   Humor  
  • I believe the message in the hymn "Rise Up, O Men of God" (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a divine invitation for us to rise above the telestial tinsel of our time; to deny ourselves of ungodliness and clothe ourselves in the mantle of holiness; to reach and stretch and grasp for that spiritual direction and sacred empowerment promised to the Lord's agents, to those charged to act in the name of our Principal, Jesus Christ; and to point the way to salvation and deliverance and peace in a world that finds itself enshrouded in darkness, a world that yearns for spiritual leadership.

  • There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'

    Race   Trash   Modernism  
  • A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.

    Spring   Wine   Mean  
  • Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

    Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin
  • Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

    Beauty   Knowledge   Moon  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.38, Penguin
  • This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

    Men   Coins   Currents  
    "Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson".
  • She's not my type,' Carter says. 'So what is your type?' 'Tall, skinny, black hair, blue eyes, freckly nose. Blue tinsel wig and snowflakes optional.' 'Skinny?' I squeal. 'Definitely. Pretending to be shy, sensible and stand-offish when really you're mad about me.' 'You sure about that?' 'No, but I'm hoping.

    Eye   Hair   Blue  
  • Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

    Art   Prayer   Fear  
    Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali - Song Offerings”, p.28, Read Books Ltd
  • Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

  • Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.

    Men   August   February  
    Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.351, Vintage
  • someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely in one of those destinies that is ringed around by the transient tinsel of human applause.

    Destiny   Kind   Fame  
    Mary Deasy (1955). “The Boy who Made Good”
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